Evan and Mark are still waiting for the Detroit Tigers to make their first moves of the 2024-25 offseason. We break down Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki with help from Marquee Sports Network player development analyst Lance Brozdowski, who explains Sasaki’s pitch mix and reveals if the Tigers have a chance to sign him. After that,
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It doesn’t take a long look at this offseason’s MLB free agent list to realize that making major upgrades in the Detroit Tigers’ offense via free agents won’t be too easy. But they certainly need upgrades. Despite the flaws in the Tigers current positional group, they are young and it’s not unreasonable to hope for
Happy Monday, all. The past week has seen some interesting news, so we’ll touch in some of the bigger stories of the week. Spoiler alert: no one has signed Juan Soto, but there is a new suitor on the block. The Rays have found their new home for 2025, but does it come at the
Ten years ago (yes, somehow ten years ago), a simple song went absolutely viral for Oakland A’s fans when Josh Reddick started to use the song “Careless Whisper” as his walk-up song. Fans brought inflatable saxophones, people danced along, it was a whole movement with the A’s. [embedded content] This wasn’t the only time a
A hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning in Federal Bankruptcy Court to decide whether Diamond Sports Group’s plan to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy will be approved. On the eve of that hearing, the Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay Rays have reached agreement with Diamond on a broadcast deal, with exact terms yet unknown. MLB
Diamond Sports Group revealed in court filings on Wednesday that it has reached new broadcasting deals with the Rays and Tigers, as first observed by Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times (X link). The Rays released a statement confirming their agreement. The Tigers have not commented. Both teams presumably took reduced rates from their
This off-season, while we wait for some action from the front office, let’s remove a bit of the baseball doldrums by talking about some of the many baseball movies out there. I’ve been reviewing movies for a few years now for my friends and thought this could be fun, so come along with me and
While we’re big fans of both Josue Briceño and Thayron Liranzo, the Tigers prospects’ hot start in Arizona Fall League play needed to be undersold in the early going. When last we updated their work on October 19, the Fall League was little more than a week old. Briceño already had five home runs in
In the least surprising news of the season, the Baseball Writers’ Association of American named Detroit Tigers ace left-hander Tarik Skubal as one of three finalists for the American League Cy Young award for 2024 on Monday. He is widely considered a lock to take the award over fellow finalists Seth Lugo, starter for the
The general manager meetings took place last week in San Antoino, giving Evan and Mark plenty of topics to discuss. Evan recaps what he learned about the Detroit Tigers at the GM meetings, including an update on free-agent third baseman Alex Bregman. If not Bregman, should the Tigers trade for Miami Marlins slugger Jake Burger?
Welcome back to The Week That Was. Even tough we’re in the offseason it was still a busy week. Aaron Boone got to keep his job, the Marlins found a manager, Shohei Ohtani underwent surgery, and a bunch of New Yorkers are flying to California to make pitches to Juan Soto. So let’s just jump
In a fairly shocking turn of event, the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) announced late on Friday night that they would post star pitcher Roki Sasaki to MLB teams this offseason. The recently turned 23-year-old right-hander immediately becomes one of the top prizes of the offseason and the game’s top prospect. Not
Kenta Maeda was the Tigers’ biggest signing of the 2023-24 offseason, but his tenure in Detroit got off to a disappointing start. Kicking off the first season of a two-year, $24MM deal, he gave up three long balls and six runs over 3 1/3 innings in his Tigers debut. It was more of the same
With Michael Wacha retained on a three-year deal worth at least $51MM, “we don’t expect to be in the market for a starter moving forward. We’re going to focus on some other things,” Royals general manager J.J. Picollo told MLB.com’s Maria Guardado and other reporters during the Winter Meetings. Picollo cited the projected top five